Winterton has a long history, some fascinating stories and several lovely stone buildings. This trail gives you an introduction to the parish around the Town. A WALK To find out even more visit the heritage centre in All Saints’ Church AROUND The trail starts at All Saints’ Church in Churchside, Winterton WINTERTON Location - O S Grid Ref. SE928186 West Street - the left turn is up to North Street, the thatched Satnav DN15 9TU cottage was the last in Winterton. The thatch was removed O S Map - The 1:25,000 Explorer Sheet 281 PARISH in 1908. ‘Ancholme Valley’ covers this walk 17 Re-entry to medieval Winterton The stone houses on the left at the end of North Total trail distance about 6.1 miles, all on Street jut out and front the pavement, unlike the tarmac road, lane or stone track wide grass verge you have followed. This marks the point where the medieval open fields stopped Refreshments - Winterton has public houses, at the edge of the medieval town. The 1772 coffee shop, minimarkets and takeaways Enclosure Award, which allocated the open lands for privately owned fields, also stated the width of Parking - Roadside parking is not time limited in the new public roads. North Street (then known West Street as Winteringham Road) was a new road which was made Public Transport - The 350 Fastcat bus wide enough to drive animals (Hull to ) provides a frequent service along. However, the existing via Winterton streets within the old medieval town were narrow Toilets can be found in Queen Street and could not be changed. Sandhall Farm 1947

Potato pickers at Winterton, 1921 Design by Michael Oakenfull A Ox by George Stubbs

Leaflet produced by the Eastfield Farm, Winteringham. This classic Post-Enclosure farmhouse Heritage Lottery Fund A Country Stroll was built in 1796. It is on the Ferriby Road, just beyond the Winterton project ‘All Saints: the parish boundary. The large threshing barn has now gone. story it tells of Winterton’. The Winterton Parish Trail

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LEYS LANE 10 8 11 WINTERTON CARRS 16 HORKSTOW BRIDGE

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NORTH STREET 1 17 6 7 4 2 3 5 HOLMES LANE 1 All Saints’ Church 3 Dent’s Cottage 6 Ermine Street All Saints is a medieval, Grade I Listed, parish The cottage and railings are Grade ll Listed. The This Roman route from to the north church. The oldest surviving part is pre-1100 and cottage, dating from the 1700s or earlier, was mirrors the ridge top pre-Roman route at the west most of the rest was built by 1245. The fine remodelled in 1830-5 in the ‘Gothick’ style. It end of Winterton (Roxby Road/Top Road) which Early Romanesque Lincolnshire Tower was built was the home of a Winterton Quaker and also led to the Humber ferry crossing at around 1100 for bell-ringing. Ringing bells was eccentric, Jonathan Dent, who died in 1834 and Winteringham. The Roman road linked this area part of the new Norman burial liturgy. All Saints reputedly left £500,000 in his will. He is buried to southern Britain and made it easier for the is unusual in having an original double bell in the garden. His tomb is also Listed. army and government officials to move around chamber. A third chamber was added around the newly conquered territory. It later became 1203. The churchyard closed to new burials in an important trade route. The original road was the 1870s. Near the South Porch is a 13.7 metres wide and 1.37 metres high. It is 0.6 Churchyard cross stump, the remains of a metres below the present surface. medieval cross shaft. Next to it is the tall Churchyard Cross erected in 1906. 7 1770 Winterton Enclosure Act The church is often open for visitors and is well The field boundaries in much of Winterton worth a visit. For details of opening times see Dent’s Cottage is seen on the left parish have changed little since the 1770 Act http://lincoln.ourchurchweb.org.uk/winterton/ 4 Winterton Show Ground and 1772 Award of lands for enclosure. The site of the annual Winterton Show, the first Several new farmsteads were set weekend in July. It is a major event in the life of up soon after this enclosure, the town. The show ground also hosts several including Sedgeworth Farm other events during the year. which still exists. Many other farms have been combined and the original buildings demolished. Frontispiece to the Winterton Enclosure Act

2 King Street and Park Street This long street continues the line of Low Street further west. This was probably the first part of Spectators at Winterton show in 1910 an Anglo-Saxon settlement established before 5 Holmes, Carr, Ings and Leys Lane 950AD. The long narrow plots on the south The area east of Ermine Street is the floor of the lead down to the beck running west-east. Many Ancholme valley and only just above sea-level. of these narrow plots still exist. To the north The roads are named after the former land types there was originally a large common green but before drainage allowed arable farming. These by 1100AD much of this green had also been include: settled. Maps showing Holme - An ‘island’ of dry land surrounded by the development of marshy land Winterton can be seen Carr - Fen or swamp overgrown with scrub in the Heritage Centre such as willow Threshing day at Holme Farm, 1920s in All Saints’ Church. Ings - Water meadows and marshland 8 Winterton Model Flying Club Leys - Pasture for grazing livestock of the This field is the location for the Club flying events. commoners King Street, the Cross Keys Inn can be seen on the left 9 Gentlemans Carrs and the Winterton Riots 11 New River Ancholme 14 Site of a World War 1 airfield The fields known as Gentlemans Carrs were This was cut in the 17th century by local This field was a World War I emergency landing enclosed before the 1770 Winterton Enclosure landowners led by Sir John Monson, partly to ground for military aircraft from December 1916 Act. It is very likely that they were taken and allow river traffic up to . River trade was to June 1919 used by No. 33 (Home Defence) enclosed by Sir John Monson and his ‘gentleman’ important before the railways and when road Squadron.’ partners as ‘payment’ for his Ancholme Valley traffic was only by horse and cart. The new river drainage improvement scheme. was needed to allow navigation to Brigg but also 15 Eastfield Farm to carry away water drained from the land either The house and stable/granary is Grade ll Listed. In the 1630s Sir John Monson suggested side. The original scheme was not wholly The farmhouse was built in 1770-72 draining the Ancholme Valley which was prone to successful. In the 19th century the engineer Sir (following Winterton’s Enclosure Act) for John, flooding. Winterton refused to agree though the John Rennie, was employed to make further Earl Mexborough, who was awarded land in scheme went ahead anyway. In 1662 Thomas improvements. Winterton had a landing-stage on this part of the parish. It is a good and largely Place led over 100 Winterton townsmen in what this river at the end of Holmes Lane. unaltered example of a stone-built ‘patternbook’ is known as the Winterton Riots. They enclosure farmhouse, and one of only three listed constructed a dam to block one of the new examples of such buildings outside a village in drains and caused other damage. They argued the open limestone landscape of North that the scheme had made Winterton land Lincolnshire. There are some C19 alterations. drainage worse than before. The heritage displays in All Saints give more details about this.

Humber keels on the Ancholme Horkstow Bridge by Sir John Rennie 12 Pump House This small brick building is one of the pumping stations overseen by the Environment Agency to maintain the drainage of these lowlands. Design for a ‘Patternbook’ farmhouse, from - Alongside it is the General View of the Agriculture of Lincolnshire Winterton Ings Drain, by Arthur Young, published in 1799 Eel catching and wildfowling in fenland Sir John Monson leading down to the Newport Iron Works Old River Ancholme. 16 This is the historic site of Winterton’s ironworks, 10 Old River Ancholme owned and operated by the Fletcher family for The twisting line of the original river is followed several generations since John Fletcher bought the works in 1872 from John Naylor. by the parish boundaries between the villages to Sugar beet harvest, Leys Lane, 1960s the west and east of the valley. Here the river divides Winterton from Horkstow. In medieval 13 Possible settlement site The Fletcher family times the river valley flooded especially at spring There is evidence of various water channels and built a strong high tide and much of this land would have been a small enclosure, which appears to be an Iron reputation for often under water. It is recorded that in 1288 Age/Romano-British settlement or industrial site, agricultural Edward I ordered that the river be scoured to surviving as an earthwork. There are at least six machinery and still improve the water flow. Nowadays the old river mounds with ditches which were thought to be manufacture course is used to catch and then channel water the locations of prehistoric or Romano-British specialised farm from the higher land in the west straight to the saltmaking. This area was well used in ancient equipment. Humber Estuary. times. Newport Iron Works, North Street, 1910